How to (Privately!) Surf the Internet
by Dan Lew and John Benninghoff | at Minnebar 19
In this day and age, it feels like everything you do online is tracked, analyzed, and used against you. Don’t despair - privacy is not a lost cause! It is possible to use the internet without everyone tracking your every action.
In this talk we’ll go over how to keep your information to yourself. We’ll discuss various levels of privacy & the tools you can use to achieve it.
Dan Lew
Dan Lew has code in his DNA and has been speaking since he was two years old. He's focused these skills on software development for the past two decades, working on many large mobile apps (FlightTrack, Expedia, Trello) as well as maintaining some open source libraries and applications. Currently he works on civic tech projects at Mighty Acorn Digital.
When not speaking, he's silent.
You can contact him on Bluesky, read his website, or stalk his commit history.
John Benninghoff
John Benninghoff's interest in cybersecurity began in 1985 when he read the book Out of the Inner Circle: A Hacker's Guide to Computer Security, and found a way to get paid to do it starting in 1998. John is a proud security heretic, bringing his love of human factors, design, economics, probability, and psychology to the practice, focusing on how to integrate security into how work is done and improve organizational performance rather than avoid security issues. He currently consults through his company, Security Differently.
John has also done work in exploratory data analysis and visualization, risk analysis and quantification, Site Reliability Engineering, and writing code in R. John holds a Masters Degree in Safety Science from Trinity College Dublin, where his research focus was on applying safety principles to technology. Outside of work, John enjoys spending time outdoors, hiking running, and camping.
Links to all his current and past work can be found at https://jbenninghoff.com.